House of the Week: Log cabin in Warrensburg

I chose a cozy, sunny, out-of-the-way log home this week. The home at 145 Moose Ridge Drive in Warrensburg is 1,520 square feet. It stands in a development of log homes called Mountain Top Estates off County Route 60, not far from Exit 23 of the Northway. See more information here about the builder, Eddy Enterprises, Inc.

The house, described as a Cape in the MLS, was built in 1996 and sits on a 1.3-acre lot. It has three bedrooms and two bathrooms. I imagine a well-off family could make this an escape from urban living, a quiet house in a rural setting where you would be close to the Schroon River and Gore Mountain.

I am not an open layout fan, but I do like all the windows, main floor living space appears to have great light. There are no pictures of the bathrooms (I know, I know) or the basement, but according to the agent it is finished for a bedroom or playroom. Nice porch and deck, plus a shed.

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What an inviting home! Yes, it could be a fun retreat for some, I’d find it wonderful year round! Warrensburg has a great school system & small town feel, while being an easy hop back to the Northway. And you can’t beat the views!

I like this place, but for me I’d want it closer to Gore (it’s location is only about 1/2 way from Saratoga to Gore). The oil heat would have to go in favor of propane. Those taxes are just brutal and a deal killer for me, despite claims of a forthcoming reduction.

Log cabins are nice for a retreat. Unless you have no other decorating taste other than logs, the decor gets old for everyday life, and is very limiting. As these sort of places go, it seems pleasant enough and I am sure will appeal to someone who wants log cabin living, or has the money for a retreat. Though if I wanted a retreat I would want a better location for privacy and not just a log cabin version of standard suburban development. The listing pics make it seem more private than it is, the other houses are surrounding and not very far away. I don’t know that area well enough to speak to the price. It seems high for what you are getting and what is in that area. The taxes were a little surprising. Pretty high for a fairly rural area and the size of house. Even by NY standards.

These make wonderful homes especially during the winter. The interior walls are very functional in that the insulation, wiring, and plumbing are hidden behind them rendering them more suitable for modern technology. I especially like them when they are about 4000 sf.

Seems a little overpriced, and for some reason a “development of log homes” doesn’t sit well with me. My idea of a log home is either secluded in the woods with a lot of property or on the side of a ski slope.

Nice floor plan, and I get that it’s a log home, but there is such a thing as too much wood. Where in the book of interior decorating is it written in stone that one can’t paint those interior walls? Leave some natural if you insist, but this is just overkill in the natural wood department. With beams and ceiling left natural, this house would be infinitely more appealing to my eye if the walls had some soothing neutral color.

I think that it’s a beautiful home. That big open space on the first floor, full of light looks great and I’ll bet with the openness, you can heat most of the home with the wood stove.
If you don’t like it, there’s a good chance don’t like log homes, and probably shouldn’t buy one.
I don’t know much about the value of homes in that area, but $250k for a newer, custom log home just outside of Lake George in the Adirondacks seems reasonable to me, but I’m sure those saying otherwise are very well versed in the Warrensburgh real estate market.

$165 a square foot? It’s not on or near a lake, it’s not exactly at the base of a ski area and it’s not close to any jobs…. House was sold twice in 2003 $205k and 245K a few months later (Flip?)… Beautiful house for the right buyer (NYC and NJ looking for a getaway home) but the market is some where around $200K for a home like this with a lot of inventory on the market even at that price,,,

Just in case someone with only good past experiences with realtors wants to make an offer on this house, listen: get verification from the municipality about the tax situation FIRST. Never, ever rely on the suggestion that something might happen.

As for the price and the log house, I don’t see how a 1500 square foot house is worth this price, and as someone else said this is not a true log home, and as someone else said a development of log homes seems very peculiar.

@DMC+jane: Interior surfaces of logs can be milled flat, so the walls are a little more Owner Friendly. The building would still be a “true log home”. Unless, of course, the outside is “log siding”, in which case the house is traditionally framed with a log look slapped over it.

If you google “log home profile”, you’ll see the shapes that are available for the inside walls on a true log home.

Having said all that, it appears this house may indeed be a “fake” log home. The outside looks like siding–“logs” are too small, and there is no notching and exposed ends on the corners. Plus the inside has vertical members along the windows in the bedrooms.

Also–having owned a “real” log house, I might say you’d be better off with a Fake Log home, because of the problems & maintenance issues that are unique to a real log house.

If I were serious about putting an offer in on this place, I’d ask to see something in writing about that assessment reduction. Keep in mind if this is a retreat and not your primary residence, the process for grieving property taxes is MUCH more difficult and expensive.

Otherwise, it’s a cute place, but I’d agree that it may be overpriced at $249K for 1500 sq ft.

I agree that this appears to be “log sided” and not a true log home in which real logs were used in the construction. I think it makes a good retreat, if this is where you want to retreat to. It is too far a commute and not really an ideal vacation spot, so it is in-between, which is it’s problem. I don’t know about the price, because esentially your not getting alot except upgraded siding and a bigger lot. I don’t think it is way underpriced either, I do think people are unrealistic about what it costs to build a home. I agree I don’t need to have every interior wall dark brown unless it were a vacation property.